ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Cockfight, Lewis H. Morgan
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4 subfields: biological, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural. Cultural anthropology is the study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. It is particularly concerned with exploring cultural adaptation. Skin color is an example of human biological adaptation. Higher level of sun gives darker skin, to protect from uv. Cultural: city building , different way of organizing economic, food supplier allow different pattern to live in. All people in world eat food, we all eat it differently, have diff classification. We adapt diff cultural rules in how to eat food (follow). Whereas biological anthropologist explore how humans evolve and adapt biologically, cultural anthropologists focus on cultural adaptation. All humans share certain biological features and engage in similar biological processes (eating, sleeping, having sexual relations, physical needs etc). All this happens in a huge diverse way, this is what anthropologist try to understand.
